Chapter 500: Awakening
Leaving the city of Nikehir, Zhang Chao spent another two days traveling through the southern part of the entire Bailan Kingdom, including the province of Brinsidy, that is, the territory adjacent to the emerald blue desert for hundreds of kilometers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Because it is the closest to the original site of Emerald Blue, if there is a mysterious creation about the power of the sun, there is a great possibility that it can be found here.
But Zhang Chao found nothing, the only discovery was that the rapid and terrifying development speed of the current Bailan Kingdom was destroying people's spiritual beliefs, making the dark side of people's hearts more and more obvious.
But Zhang Chao's focus is not on this, what he focuses on is where the things he wants are hidden?
At present, he can make two speculations based on the information he has, either that thing is still sleeping in the desert with the fall of the Emerald Blue Empire, or that it has been brought to the royal city by the ruler of the White Blue Kingdom.
He guessed that as the successor of the Emerald Blue Empire, the upper echelons of the White Blue Kingdom should know some secrets, so the latter seemed more likely to him.
And he found that in all the places he passed, the faith of the angels was becoming more and more barren, and that the rate of decline could be described as terrible, beyond common sense.
Only a strict abolition from above is likely to quickly destroy an otherwise ingrained belief.
It turns out that the rulers of the Whiteland Kingdom have decided that they do not need the Angelic Sect, a church that "leads people to goodness, resists oppression, and calls for all human beings to be created equal", and large swaths of the temple have been abandoned, sacrifices have been secretly expelled, and believers have been forcibly disbanded......
It is very common for people to abandon a certain belief in the secular world for policy reasons, and change course, after all, religion is only a tool used by rulers to control the people, and if it is not appropriate, it will naturally not be welcomed by the rulers.
But it's different in the Eternal Continent, the angels here are real, and they have betrayed their beliefs, so they are so sure that the angels will not attack them?
And the most important point is that without angels, how can they fight against demons? with elite armies?
It's not impossible, but the cost of training an elite human army is too high compared to the zero cost of the demon armies that come across the border from time to time.
And once a high-level demonic creature like the Demon Dragon appears in the Bailan Kingdom, the human army alone can't resist it at all, it is already an extraordinary power, and it is definitely not something that the human army can offset with numbers, even if it can, the loss is too great......
But even if it is the power of the sun, even if it is the Shurima Empire in the other world, which is far superior to the Bailan Kingdom, it is absolutely impossible for them to be the opponent of the angels, and the difference in strength between the two sides is too great.
It's really a frog at the bottom of the well~
Zhang Chao laughed secretly as he walked into Namibik, the royal city of the Bailan Kingdom.
Namibik is the most powerful kingdom in the Eternal Continent today, but its capital has almost no defenses, no moats, no ballistas of arrow towers, and no towering walls like other cities.
This is because Theodotus Sottel, the creator of the kingdom of Brand, once said something that has spread far and wide - the people of Brando do not need to be bound by the city walls, because wherever our army goes, it is my territory.
Zhang Chao felt very powerful when he heard this, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was really a bit nonsense, there was only one king in the entire Bailan Kingdom who had no city walls, so it could be used to be brilliant, which was really a bit far-fetched.
Walking through the streets full of small vendors, he came to a dilapidated temple of angels, the outermost altar of the angel in the sacrificial square was missing a wing, and the head was a little mottled, and the carvings that were originally called vivid were no longer at all.
Zhang Chao didn't feel anything about this, and walked forward on his own, each temple was equivalent to a small newspaper platform, he needed to report some of the information he got to the stars, and if necessary, it would be great if he could apply for the support of a few legion commanders.
"The world is declining, and morality is declining......"
A middle-aged man stood in front of the angel statue, not noticing Zhang Chao's arrival at all, and sighed a little abruptly.
"Since you are dissatisfied, why don't you repair and repair this temple?" Zhang Chao was slightly stunned, this was the only person he had seen since he came to the Bailan Kingdom who had a memory of the belief in angels.
The middle-aged man was slightly stunned, although he was surprised, but there was no hesitation in his tone.
"Who dare?"
"This is the will of the king, who dares to disobey it?"
Zhang Chao frowned slightly, a mere mortal king, if it was Azir, the existence of a thousand-year-old king could still make him feel a trace of awe, but a mere Bailan king...... Hehe!
So he said disdainfully: "If it is a king, it must not make mistakes, and even if you know that there is an abyss in front of you, do you have to jump down?"
The middle-aged man's voice suddenly raised a pitch, and he said angrily: "Why do you have such thoughts...... We are not on the throne's level, so even if there are some labor pains...... But I'm sure the king must have had his own plans!"
Zhang Chao sighed, he thought he was a seedling who could still be saved, but he didn't expect that he was still the brainless fan of the White Blue King.
"You trust the king very much, and I wonder where this blind trust of yours comes from?"
"All those who doubted the king died, and all the enemies of the king died, and it turned out that all those who thought the king had done wrong were wrong!"
"The kingdom before you has grown stronger and stronger under the rule of the dirty, the Iron Rider can tread on all the unsubordinate states at will, the kingdom is larger than ever before, and the Emerald Blue Empire, a populace with a variety of accents, has become a unique Bailan...... Who in the world can do such a great achievement!"
The middle-aged man had a fanatic look on his face, this kind of expression Zhang Chao had seen many times along the way, and he had already discovered that the so-called Bailan King was already more than just a king in the minds of the Bailan people, he was like a real god...... Wait a minute!
Zhang Chao suddenly seemed to understand something!
He looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, and his face became a little ugly, because he found that this so-called Bailan King was much more ambitious than he thought - he wanted to become a god!
ps: The state is not good, that's all, let's make up the rest tomorrow.